What's the difference between hall and wall?

Hall


Definition:

  • (n.) A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
  • (n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.
  • (n.) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.
  • (n.) Any corridor or passage in a building.
  • (n.) A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.
  • (n.) A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
  • (n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
  • (n.) Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (2) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
  • (3) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
  • (4) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
  • (5) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
  • (6) "They haven't just got to be able to run like athletes," says Hall.
  • (7) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
  • (8) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
  • (9) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
  • (10) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
  • (11) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
  • (12) Indeed, the BBC’s own recent Digital Media Initiative was closed by Tony Hall, having lost £100m.” The document is entitled “BBC3: An Alternative Strategy – Realising Value for the Licence Payer”.
  • (13) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
  • (14) Urinary iodine excretion was examined in 645 patients at Bad Hall, both before and after undergoing iodine balneotherapy.
  • (15) The basic study of medicine of the early 18th century is described with the help of the example of Halle university.
  • (16) The Hall-Kaster prosthesis thus presented improved flow characteristics in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement, which is considered of particular importance to the patients with a narrow aortic root.
  • (17) The Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's son Shane, who clearly had the more imaginative father of the three, was drafted 18th; he'll be playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
  • (18) But Richard Hall, director of infrastructure at Consumer Futures, a consumer watchdog, said Ofgem had "produced a lot of evidence that would persuade a third party that there is a trend [of rising prices]".
  • (19) "It's also very hard to evade a question that comes from a town hall person," she said during a discussion of the format and how the candidates will respond.
  • (20) Speaking in a debate in Westminster Hall on Tuesday, Kawczynski said: "What these employees are being told, some of whom have worked for the organisation for many years, is that if they do not set up their own companies and invoice the BBC through these companies, their contracts will be terminated.

Wall


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
  • (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
  • (n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
  • (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
  • (n.) The side of a level or drift.
  • (n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
  • (v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
  • (v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
  • (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
  • (2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (3) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
  • (4) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
  • (5) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
  • (6) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
  • (7) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
  • (8) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
  • (9) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
  • (10) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (11) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
  • (12) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
  • (13) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.
  • (14) The resistance of GSA 65 to proteolytic degradation, together with previous immunofluorescence data that indicate the antigen is an integral part of the G. lamblia cyst wall, suggests that this molecule may play a role in maintaining the integrity of the cyst in vivo.
  • (15) Polypeptide factor isolated from vascular wall of the cattle ("vasonin") was shown to affect the immunogenesis and hemostasis, to stimulate kallikrein-kinin system and to accelerate processes of regeneration.
  • (16) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
  • (17) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
  • (18) Following injections of HRP into the apex of the heart, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal region and the ventral wall of the right ventricle, we observed that HRP-labeled sympathetic neurons were localized predominantly in the right stellate ganglia, and to a lesser extent, in the right superior and middle cervical ganglia, and left stellate ganglia.
  • (19) A temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was identified which at the restrictive temperature of 37 degrees C is unable to secrete a number of cell wall-associated proteins and thus resembles previously reported sec mutants.
  • (20) Polypropylene mesh was used to repair the abdominal wall.

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